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o part 3 for the upper end of the market. The final part of this blog series now continues with the analysis of the Logility Voyager Solutions suite and analyzes how Optiant might fit in. As depicted in Figure 1 below, Logility Voyager is a set of both SCP and supply chain execution (SCE) solutions, which is a comprehensive solution rarely offered in the market (even by much larger SCM providers). Supply Chain Planning This set of modules within Logility Voyager Solutions optimizes material, inventory,

The Small Business Software (SBS) evaluation model targets the functional requirements necessary to support a typical small business. If your organization doesn't have many sites to operate, seeks a solid base of ERP functionality, but doesn't need the biggest systems on the market, this model is a good starting place. Extending beyond accounting functions, it includes general ledger, accounts payable (A/P) and accounts receivable (A/R), payroll, job and project costing, multinational accounting, light manufacturing, inventory, technology, and more.

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o part 3 to regain keyboard input. O ODBC - Open DataBase Connectivity . This is a standard protocol that is used to run queries against databases that are not natively supported (supported directly, with their own language) by an application. Most databases support ODBC connections to front-end tools, in addition to supporting specific applications natively. ODS - Operational Data Store . Part of the data warehouse; fed with scores, behaviors, and clusters in near real-time, to be able to react live to
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o part 3 FOCUS 2010 Impressions - Part 2 Part 1 of this blog series talked about my attendance of the JDA FOCUS 2010 conference on the heels of the recent merger between JDA Software (NASDAQ: JDAS) and i2 Technologies . The article first discussed the different geneses and cultures of the two merging parties. One major outcome of the conference was JDA’s unveiled plan to converge most of its existing and acquired product sets. To that end, JDA pledged several key commitments to its customers,
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This is a complete service management system that is comprised of four specific applications to help companies manage service contracts, track service histories and required preventive maintenance for each piece of equipment under service contract, daily planning and dispatch, and service invoicing.

o part 3 background and the product overview. Part Two looked at what makes SouthWare different. Part Three began the discussion of the applications and development environment. Part Five will provide a competitive analysis and make user recommendations. SouthWare NetLink NetLink is a comprehensive tool for developing browser-based access to corporate data and processes for customers (including shopping carts), vendors, and employees. Live or off-line access is supported. The following are standard SouthWare
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Trying to sell dumbed-down versions of mySAP Business Suite, Oracle E-Business Suite, without a serious re-engineering of these products, has not worked for the lower-end of the market. To date, Oracle and SAP have responded by acquiring more suitable genuine products for the segment, while it is not unlikely to see PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards follow suit in the future.

o part 3 field into another part o the system, which should be able to produce new report based on the data field in case. At the time of its acquisition in 2002, TopManage had nearly 800 customers in Europe, and it offered financials, distribution, and CRM functionality and supported English, Spanish, and Hebrew versions. Today, it already has 1,300 customers and 150 partners in Europe, Middle East, and the Americas; it is also now available in 14 languages and 12 countries, with the idea to be available in 22
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The first part of this blog series described the opportunity for software as a service (SaaS) or on-demand enterprise applications, especially in the current difficult economic milieu. But before any vendor can embark on delivering a SaaS offering, it must understand several misconceptions about SaaS.
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o part 3 that SaaS applications cater only to basic functional requirements. As said in Part II, SaaS applications are highly configurable at the metadata level, with many customization capabilities coming inherently from within an application platform as a service (PaaS ). In the next parts of this blog series I will talk about some good examples in which complete custom applications have been built using a commercially available PaaS. However, Gartner warns that some gaps might remain for truly complex,
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Part I of this blog series introduced the burning issues of food safety and the resultant need for a holistic and proactive safety strategy (rather than to reactively recall plagued products). The previous post also talked in more detail about Lawson Software’s holistic approach entitled The "4Ps" of Food Safety.
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o part 3 and Drug Safety: Prevention Better Than Cure (For Sure) - Part 2 Part I of this blog series introduced the burning issues of food safety and the resultant need for a holistic and proactive safety strategy (rather than to reactively recall plagued products). The previous post also talked in more detail about Lawson Software’s holistic approach entitled The 4Ps of Food Safety . In this part, Rory Granros, process industry and product marketing manager at Infor , also strongly opines that in order to
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Part III of this blog series introduced Webcom ResponsAbility, the on-demand workflow automation and business process management (BPM) solution. Anyone interested can take the product for a free trial test drive here.
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o part 3 repaired at no cost or a new part is sent to a customer. The defective part is also sent to the engineering department for analysis to determine the root cause and future corrective actions. Namely, in order to ensure the highest quality for which Grayhill is known, the case cannot be closed until all the corrective and preventive action (CAPA) requirements are fulfilled. To that end, the following outputs must be generated: the detailed explanation of the root cause of the problem, the short-term fix,
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o part 3 listening platform, to complete our SEM vision (see Part 1) . We see that there are the following three broad aspect of service and we support all three: Agent-assisted Self-service Social or peer-assisted Role-based user experience is a key and that’s what SEM’s adaptive desktop and web self-service is designed to deliver (as explained in Part 1). The reason that companies cannot deliver that goal today is because the processes and technologies are so compartmentalized that they have to design
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